HARVESTING SEPTEMBER

Wisdom Body Notes for Sept. 3-13 by Samantha Cameron

September is always an important month in each year, not only for mundane changes of season, schooling, and harvests, but the month usually carries deeper, heavier energies calling us onward.  This year, September is a doozy of quixotic demands, and surprising shifts.  Through it all, the most important requirement is ‘radical self-care.’  This is always a Virgo theme, but this year it is not only more important, but needs renewal and deepening, in large part due to the August Eclipse Season.

Bodies are tired.  The earth is exhausted from high temperatures and storms. Old structures of every kind are teetering to tumble.  Speed rises along with Violence…..of course we are exhausted which makes harvesting, planning or adventuring daunting tasks.  We cannot manifest the new until we either surrender or heal the old.  Eclipses teach us to trust as they cycle around each year to eliminate past issues, forcing us toward the unknown.  The ancient origin of the word ‘eclipse’ comes from the root levk- ‘meaning to leave.’  This August asked transformational tasks of us all that we now need to begin implementing so that eventually we successfully harvest this ‘extravagant year’.

Taking prominent energies from the 8/27 ‘Eclipse Design’ we move into September’s must do’s:  Mercury, our mind of thinking and communication, and ruler of Virgo, was sizzled by the Sun, (only 7 seconds of separation- making it a powerful ‘cazimi’. ) Plus Sun/Moon/Mercury were T-boned by the Promethean Sky God, Uranus, of higher mind.   Think of Mercury as ruler of your lower, logical, habitual thinking, with Uranus as ruler of the Meta-Mind of non-linear gestalt ahaaa moments.  To ramp up this mental ferocity Uranus has slowed to become ever more potent at it retrogrades on 9/10, at 5 degrees Gemini, another sign ruled by Mercury.

Yes, there is/are BIG reasons your brain is banging away,  leaping onward without protocol…..onward into what?  A time of great awakening!These energies are big supporters of enlivening imagination and creativity, especially of thinking beyond old structures and asking for a harvest that is willing to risk, willing to plow up what was, and trust what will seed and grow.  Perhaps this growth comes from release and subtraction? Perhaps it clears fields allowing new understanding, renewal of relationships, the crumbling of long held beliefs.

If your brain on fire is not enough fuel to kick you onwards, then let’s bring in the heart~ Venus style.  Venus is preparing to turn Retrograde Oct. 3rd, in the sign of deep diving, passionate Scorpio.  As it goes backward and inward, it moves into Libra, a sign it rules which also brings great power to its inner journey of discovery.  It finally Stations to go direct Nov. 13.  This first week of September, Venus begins her pre-shadow phase, moving to full shadow before going Rx.  What does this mean?  Astrological ‘shadow’ periods are precursors to the Rx inner dive and thus bring another side to the planet’s energies.  Venus rules love, money, self-worth, relationships, making her a positive force.  When she enters shadow, or Rx, we are often confused as what we expect -morphs.  We see below the surface of someone’s behavior, and hopefully our own.  The Venus Dance often shifts our perspective, offering unexpected and unknown ‘gifts.’

This is an excellent time to prepare your ‘Venus Tableau.’  I feel this goes hand in hand with time out for radical self-care as Venus is questioning our value, our capacity for love, our ability to make money.  In her Scorpio passage she will question our passion, our power to love and be loved, along with acknowledgment we deserve the gifts of Venus.  While in Libra, a signature of partnership, she will ‘poke the bear’ about friendships, business partnerships, plus husbands/wives and lovers.  What is not balanced?  Do you suddenly see you give too much, or not enough?  Are you too bossy?  Too timid?  As Retrogrades go, there may be difficulties, even disappointments and sorrow, but it’s a great time for healing and deeper heart understanding if we make that part of a daily focus.

A fascinating detail of this Venus reversing gears is that She is moving off 22 degrees of Libra- to where she returns Nov 13, emerging from her Rx.  The fixed star Spica is at 22 Libra, making her themes and energy part of the Venus Retrograde ‘feeling tone.’  Spica is known as a fortunate star, so spend time ‘outside the box’ to be creatively aware, and/or take advantage of surprising moments of deeper alignment with Self and loved ones.  If we abuse them or self, Spica can quickly turn intense and difficult.  Conflicts and Venus questions that rise in September are likely to be part of themes and conversations until the year’s end.

Despite Venus being such an important personal planet, the more notable highlight of Sept. is most likely Uranus going Rx on the 10th, joining the New Moon at two degrees Virgo.  I don’t know whether to write, “What a great New Moon to help us clean out closets and re-set better daily habits“. OR “leap up, do your own thing! Open the brain to a wider bandwidth.”  For those who enjoy a more meta-mind this is usually an enriching time. For the collective, it offers chaos,   an un-quiet metamorphosis, even transformation.  It might be best to find or make a new outfit with ‘Change Agent’ across the chest. 

Olé my friends, off we go into the unknown.  Let us join arm in arm to shore up our bandwidth, tuck everyone into a safety harness and leap onward.

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May blessings of new vision and adventure be yours.  May we join as witness for and to one another, supporting heart-intended journeys.  May the world’s greed and wanton destruction open doors to your inner power of greater healing.  

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VIRGO BIRTHDAY: May you find quiet healing time for Self as your big gift this year.  Take out a knife and cut away what no longer serves.  Call in the soft, sweet flow of water to wash through you, no matter the tsunamis.  Turn the need to control into acceptance, and acceptance with pleasure.  No easy task but you are up to it.  Mercury, your ruling planet, is presently travelling with the South Node as it enters Virgo, asking for a sweeter mental analysis of self, and the inner strength to not fall back into old patterns of critique and perfection.